untamed

English

Etymology

From Middle English untamed, untemed, equivalent to un- +‎ tamed and/or untame +‎ -ed. Compare Dutch ongetemd (“untamed”), German ungezähmt (“untamed”), Danish utæmmet (“untamed”), Swedish otämd (“untamed”), Icelandic ótamin (“untamed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈteɪmd/

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Adjective

untamed (comparative more untamed, superlative most untamed)

1. Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact.

   Synonyms: feral, indomite, tameless; see also Thesaurus:wild

   The mustang is an untamed horse that roams where it wants, with little interest in humans.

   • 1955 July, M. D. Greville, “To the Valdres by Rail”, in Railway Magazine, pages 457-458:

     Kjelsås (six miles) marks the end of the suburbs, and the line immediately plunges into Nordmarka. This vast untamed area of forest and mountain (much of it over 2,000 ft. above sea level), interspersed with innumerable lakes, large and small, is known as Oslo's playground.

   • 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     John Wesley Powell ... the one-armed Civil War veteran led nine men in four wooden dories down the untamed and uncharted Colorado River and into the equally untamed and uncharted Grand Canyon.

Related terms

• untame

Translations

Wild, uncontrolled, especially of animals not domesticated or trained to human contact

• Arabic: وَحْشِيّ m (waḥšiyy), بَرِّيّ (ar) m (barriyy)
• Catalan: indòmit
• Danish: utæmmet
• Dutch: ongetemd (nl)
• Finnish: villi (fi), kesyttämätön
• Gothic: 𐌿𐌽𐌼𐌰𐌽𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌲𐌲𐍅𐍃 (unmanariggws)
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀδάμαστος (adámastos), ἀνήμερος (anḗmeros)

• Hebrew: לא מבוית, פראי
• Hungarian: szelídítetlen
• Irish: ainriata, éigeansa, fiáin, gan smacht, neamhcheansaithe
• Italian: selvatico (it) m, brado (it)
• Kapampangan: lasip
• Latin: indomitus
• Macedonian: не́скротлив (néskrotliv), див (div)
• Māori: pāwhara
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: utemmet, utemma, utemt

• Portuguese: xucro (pt)
• Russian: ди́кий (ru) (díkij)
• Spanish: indómito (es), chúcaro (es), bravío (es), cerril (es), cerrero, díscolo (es)

Anagrams

• unmated